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A new AMD vs Nvidia decision? (lemmy.nowsci.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nowsci.com/post/7576006

Hey all,

In the market for a GPU, would like to use Bazzite, mostly a Steam user with some SteamVR (rare), and have run into nvidia issues with Bazzite and a 3070 previously.

With the recent news on nVidia's beta drivers and Plasma's sync support in beta, I'm newly on the fence about switching to AMD given nvidia having a better performance to cost ratio, the power usage (big one for a compact living room system), and the fact that they have the potential for HDMI2.1 support which AMD doesn't have a solution to yet.

What are community thoughts? I'll probably hold out for some reports on the new drivers regardless, but wanted to check in with the hive mind.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

NVIDIA is getting better but AMD (and Intel Arc for that matter) is still more straightforward. No proprietary driver required as hardware support is right in the kernel, no need for any kernel modules and it's pretty much plug-and-play. You can swap your AMD card for an Intel Arc card, do absolutely zero package/driver installs and it will boot right back to your desktop. It's easier compared to Windows, while dealing with NVIDIA is harder.